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Jazzo's game got me thinking about other games we could play here. How about a definition game in which you write a definition, pasted or just stated generally, of a word once discussed on the board?
Members could give up if no one remembered the word in question and the poster could fill us in.
I'll begin with a generally stated definition:
An enclosure in a castle wall used as a toilet. Clue: Three syllables.
Best regards,
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Dear Wordwind,
What an excellent idea!
No dictionary to hand so I can't check (should that be against the rules anyway?), but the first word that comes to mind is garderobe - but I suspect it is pronounced as two syllables, not three. The privy was, in mediæval times, called a necessarium, but that seems to have one or two too many syllables. I think reredorter has some connection, maybe that was that a separate building for the same purpose (it connects in my mind with monastries rather than castles). Can't come up with any more - but a good headscratching exercise.
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Dear dxb,
Yeah, garderobe is the word. I was counting the "de" as a syllable, although you do slide over it without much syllabification, huh? Anyway, you should offer up the next word! Thanks for necessarium--that's a curiously funny word!
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Dear WW: I remembered the word, mostly because I wondered what peculiar logic made that name choice passible. Garderobe sounds like closet, a place to keep garments. A water closet is obviously not a place to keep garments. At least it didn't get called a water garderobe.
To continue: How about the structure permitting garrison to keep dates?
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Dear wwh,
I have racked my brain and searched thro' references, tried different roots, but getting nowhere with this - how about a clue.
dxb
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This was mentioned again recently in another thread - I'ld still like a clue. Please.
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dxb, you, Bill and I are the only ones who are interested in this game. Mebbe we could see whether Anu could set us up our own little forum!
I have no idea what Bill's date word is, but I'll propose one and let him correct me:
calendar
Here's another definition of a word once discussed on AWAD:
I am the word that means a facial expression showing amusement with something that has been inanely expressed. What word am I?
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Dear WW: The facility for keeping dates could be a girl's name. Initials S.P.
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Keeping dates:
Two words? How many letters? English language? Roots?
Have a web cam? Wanna play charades?
Needing more clues,
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